I need some help coming up with something for my groomsman. There are seven of them, so cost needs to probably be no more than about $50. But Im open to pretty much any suggestion. Also, I have credit I can use at Newegg and Best Buy so anything from there is bonus points.

Kind of depends on their personalities, but I would suggest something alcoholic in nature.

Whatever you do, it should be one of the nicest examples of whatever it is. Meaning if item genre X has a price range of $25-$50, and if item genre Y has a price range of $40 - $100, I'd go with genre X.

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derFunkenstein wrote:Kind of depends on their personalities, but I would suggest something alcoholic in nature.

I thought about that, and although they would probably like that we have always gotten stuff like that for each other, how many flasks or zippos does a man really need. Im the most techy of all of them but If I could afford netbooks or something like that I would do that because it would be useful.

The groom (at my sister's wedding) gave us all shot glasses that had the engraving plates, but didn't pay to have them engraved. I hope he doesn't know my handle on here, or read this board because I know at least 2 folks who got "cheap douche" engraved. I lol'd.

I second (fouth?) the multi-tool suggestion. I've been a groomsman in lots of weddings, and the only gift that I really ever used was a Leatherman Micro. It was awesome and I used it all of the time. So awesome, somebody stole it off of my keyring.... (but left the keys)

I have been given flasks, cigar sets (cutters, etc), glasses, cuff links, tie tacks, you name it. Most was either thrown out or dusting away. The Micro was used constantly, and was a quality item.

I'm not much for trinkets anyway (I'd rather you save the money than give me some useless crap, and I don't expect a gift anyway), so take it with a grain of salt....

Dieter wrote:I second (fouth?) the multi-tool suggestion. I've been a groomsman in lots of weddings, and the only gift that I really ever used was a Leatherman Micro. It was awesome and I used it all of the time. So awesome, somebody stole it off of my keyring.... (but left the keys)

I have been given flasks, cigar sets (cutters, etc), glasses, cuff links, tie tacks, you name it. Most was either thrown out or dusting away. The Micro was used constantly, and was a quality item.

I'm not much for trinkets anyway (I'd rather you save the money than give me some useless crap, and I don't expect a gift anyway), so take it with a grain of salt....

I totally agree with you, I hate useless crap, and none of my guys are suit and tie type so cuff links and stuff like that would end up getting lost or thrown away.

This maybe out of your price range at around $100 a piece, but my cousin gave his groomsmen a personalized bobblehead doll. They came out awesome and I know it has no real purpose but how many of us have our own bobblehead. Here is the site: http://www.whoopassenterprises.com/

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definitely useful is best, but I want to defend the cuff-links idea. I don't think that anyone ever uses them again, BUT my brother in law gave us all cuff-links with different icons on them and in different styles, but all blue and silver. so it looked kinda cool. maybe you could get them but not make it hte gift.. I don't know how much they are though.

alcohol sucks IMO, there's no lasting memory unless it comes in some fantastic bottle that you mount or display on the mantle piece. I think the general intent is to give the fella's something to remind them of the great day they shared.

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balzi wrote:definitely useful is best, but I want to defend the cuff-links idea. I don't think that anyone ever uses them again, BUT my brother in law gave us all cuff-links with different icons on them and in different styles, but all blue and silver. so it looked kinda cool. maybe you could get them but not make it hte gift.. I don't know how much they are though.

alcohol sucks IMO, there's no lasting memory unless it comes in some fantastic bottle that you mount or display on the mantle piece. I think the general intent is to give the fella's something to remind them of the great day they shared.

Im already buying more alcohol than they could even dream of for the wedding

ChrisDTC wrote:Im already buying more alcohol than they could even dream of for the wedding

I meant it sucks as a gift, you're not talking about a gift are you??

someone said different stuff for each - that's a great idea. I bought ties for mine, but not ones that we even wore on the day, and I regret it now. Yeah, they last, but they would never wear them - my best man wears a suit only if his wife absolutely insists that flannel, his favourite comfy jeans, and skater shoes are *NOT* appropriate.

if one them loves a drink, them get them the sweetest most trophy looking bottle opener you can find

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Out of interest how may people are going to the wedding? Around here its normally 1 groomsman per 100 guests. Of course its normally $500 per groomsman in cash as well, but that's normally to cover the suits, travel, etc.

I am looking at getting different gifts for each of my groomsmen. There is not a single gift they would all like, so I like the idea of getting them each something they would appreciate. Of course it could be a challenge to find something around the same price for each of them.

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